The combustible sedimentary rock, better known as coal, was not only crucial to the onset of advanced technology here on Earth, but it should also be key to the development of advanced E.T.s residing on any given exoearth.

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. An artist's depiction of 51 Pegasi b, the first exoplanet found orbiting a sunlike star. | Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Thirty years ago, on Oct. 6, 1995 ...

In a groundbreaking revelation, recent astronomical observations have identified potential Dyson spheres, massive structures that could indicate advanced alien civilizations harnessing stellar energy. This discovery, coupled with the detection of potential ...

In 1995, a pair of scientists discovered a planet outside our solar system orbiting a solar-type star. Since that finding—which won the scientists a portion of the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics—researchers have discovered more than 5,000 exoplanets ...

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The curious minds at What If explore whether a specific exoplanet could potentially host alien life, considering atmosphere, water, and biology.

Astrobiologists propose that alien civilizations need accessible coal deposits to industrialize exoplanets and become detectable from Earth.

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Thirty years ago this week, two Swiss astronomers announced that they had spotted the first known planet orbiting a Sun-like star. The Nobel-winning discovery, later published in the pages of Nature, was the culmination of centuries of dreaming, and ...

SIGNS of an alien planet that’s about the same size as Earth have been picked by up a Nasa telescope. Scientists say it might even be within its host star’s “habitable